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Case Discussion: Editor and reviewers requiring authors to cite their own work
…discussion document which will be ready, on our website, early this year. Nancy Chescheir on behalf of the COPE Education Subcommittee Read January 2019 COPE Digest newsletter and use the COPE… - Case
Ethical approval requirements for case study reports
…what happens if their identifying photographs are published in scientific journals under an open licence. The BMC portfolio has this as an explicit point in their consent for publication policies: authors need to have informed the subject that the publication will be open access and published under CC… - Seminars and webinars
Artificial intelligence and peer review
In this session, COPE Council Member, Mike Streeter, hosts a discussion between Dustin Smith (Hum), and Mohammad Hosseini (postdoctoral researcher and collaborator at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine) about the state… - Case
Academic freedom
…-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html">ICMJE guidelines for authorship, all authors agree to be accountable for the work. If the student cannot be accountable for the work because of the potential professional risks to them, do they qualify for authorship? The Forum were told that the student did most of the work on the paper and would like to be an author, and wants the… - Case
Suspicion that signed informed consent forms are forged
…-practices-ensuring-consent-publishing-medical-case-reports">consent for publishing medical case reports useful, which highlights the need for trust in author declarations. There are also relevant ICMJE guidelines on protecting research participants. … - News
Research integrity and how to buy a Persian carpet: TOP Guidelines, part 2
…Picture by Garry Knight (Flickr: Persian Carpet) CC BY-SA 2.0 at http://bit.ly/2FKpQCo In “The art of buying a carpet,” Simon Busch suggests that a wise carpet buyer checks a carpet’s knot count (“You will find much truth under the carpet: turn it… - News
In the news: May & June 2022
…href="https://ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-promise-and-perils-of-preprint.html">preprint scouts to identify preprints that may be a good fit for a peer-reviewed journal may be a useful method to increase appropriate submissions, but needs to be implemented with care. Predatory publishing In a comment about a global study by InterAcademy Partnership about - Forum discussion topics
Ethical considerations around book publishing
…technology to access individual chapters, without accessing the whole book, so ethical statements on a chapter level is desirable. Who is responsible for ethics in book publishing? If journal articles are published with a CC-BY license, can the author publish a similar article in a book as a chapter? From a copyright legal perspective this is allowed, as long as… - News
In the news: February Digest
…grade history courses in Texas and California, comparing the content. The story demonstrates that our students are exposed to sometimes nuanced, or sometimes blatantly different versions of the same historical events. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html… - News
Intellectual property focus
…publishing model, impose any embargoes, or charge any fees to authors for publishing articles or to readers for accessing them. As stated in the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, journals should also name the copyright holder and indicate licensing terms in both HTML and… - News
In the news: April 2018 Digest
…or all of these recommendations (http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/Transparency_Author_Contributions.html)http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/02/26/1715374115 CODE OF ETHICS Code of… - News
In the news: April 2020
…diversity inherently “reduces the risk of groupthink and unlocks creative and impactful solutions”. www.goldmansachs.com/what-we-do/investing-and-lending/launch-with-gs/pages/commitment-to-diversity.html The journal Development and its publisher, both… COPE webinar: Current Issues in Peer Review
…/>Heather Tierney, Managing Editor, Journals and Ethics Policy, American Chemical Society and COPE Council Member Heather is Managing Editor, Journals and Ethics Policy, at the American Chemical Society (ACS). In addition to managing the ACS’s two flagship review journals, Accounts of Chemical Research and Chemical…- News
Data and reproducibility: The role of research institutions
…src="/files/u7140/data%20carpentry_logo.jpeg" style="width: 267px; height: 75px; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; float: right;" />It may be a part of: RCR training, graduate student and post-doc training, new faculty onboarding, and offered on an ongoing basis as part of continuing professional development (e.g., - News
Creating and implementing research data policies: COPE webinar report
…Council Member and Education and Engagement Consultant at Edanz Group) introduced and moderated the webinar. Heather Tierney (COPE Council Member and Managing Editor, Journals and Ethics Policy, American… - News
In the news: October 2020
…indicated that the Chinese scientific publishing industry will strive to publish more quality and influential English language scholarly journals and enhance global cooperation in upholding academic integrity and open science, in a bid to ensure a healthy Chinese ecosystem for basic research and assessment of… - News
Citations: Link, Locate, Discover, Connect
…Factor denominator.” Learned Publishing 24: 133-137. https://doi.org/10.1087/20110208 [4] http://ipscience-help.thomsonreuters.com/incitesLiveJCR/10667-TRS.html The JIF for 2017 is calculated as the ratio… - Forum discussion topics
Predatory publishing: next steps and where do we go from here?
…alt="" src="/files/u7140/kelly_cobey_-_1.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 1px 3px; max-width: 100%; width: 120px; height: 81px;" /> Presentation by Kelly Cobey, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Developing a digital authenticator tool… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…;order=-announced_date_first"> ArXiv saw a surge of activity as did the popular press, scholarly fora, and social media. Scientists from all over the world set up… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: April 2019
…What we’ve learned: Reflections at the end of our term as COPE Co-Chairs Image credit: CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated Jerry Segraves-jerrysfoto.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue-reflect.jpg We often reflect…